back to article VMware doubling down on OpenStack

The content catalog for late August's VMworld San Francisco has yielded up another nuggetoid of vNews: a new version of VMware Integrated OpenStack. Virtzilla debuted its own OpenStack distribution last year, billing it as an exceptionally fine distribution for those who want to run an OpenStack cloud on top of vSphere. …

  1. Victor 2

    So...

    OpenStack aims to eliminate the dependence on software such a vSphere... Exactly what difference will it make to pay the extra money (which is not cheap) for VMware's OpenStack instead of using it off the shelf?

    1. Nate Amsden

      Re: So...

      To integrate with vSphere. Most likely to be able to try to have some sort of common set of APIs when managing Openstack running multiple hypervisors, because vSphere is still the most solid and mature hypervisor on the planet I expect people will want to use it with OpenStack.

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